TUNISIA: Locust Invasion

Ominous pink clouds, as deadly as
contaminated air, drifted out of war-torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia
last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in
areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray
control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's
date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched
them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing
in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby
dooming the trees. .

Tunisia's supplies of anti-locust insecticide exhausted,-Premier Habib
Bourguiba called on the U.S. for help....